The Jack Rudin & John G. Driscoll Distinguished Visiting Professorship at Iona College was established with a grant from Jack and Susan Rudin. Invitations are extended each year to one or more outstanding scholars to serve as visiting professors at Iona College. The honorees present lectures to the College community, participate in faculty seminars, and share their knowledge and wisdom with Iona faculty and students in a variety of ways.

FALL 2016

Dr. Helen Fisher

Senior Research Fellow at the Kinsey Institute, Indiana University, Member of the Center for Human Evolutionary Studies in the Department of Anthropology, Rutgers University, and Chief Scientific Advisor to Match.com

Hosted by the School of Arts & Science

“LUST, ROMANCE, ATTACHMENT

The Drive to Love, Who We Choose and the

Future of Love in the Digital Age”

Tuesday, October 4, 2016 – Noon

The Christopher J. Murphy Auditorium

Free and Open to the Public

Dr. Fisher discusses the biological underpinnings of romantic rejection, love addiction, human adultery and divorce. She then explores the neuroscience of personality structure to propose why we fall in love with one person rather than another.

She concludes with discussion of the biology of long-term partnership happiness and the future of relationships in the digital age—what she calls “slow love.”

Johnnetta Betsch Cole, Ph.D

Johnnetta Betsch Cole, Ph.D. speaks on "The Pedagogical Case for Diversity and Inclusion in American Higher Education." The lecture took place on September 4, 2014, and is part of the Jack Rudin & John G. Driscoll Distinguished Visiting Professorship.